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A big Congratulations to Dr.Balaji Sampath for being felicitated as one of the 100 Great IIT-ians who have contributed significantly to India's growth. Balaji was presented with this book compiled by Commander VK Jaitly, at a felicitation event at IIT Madras today.

Aid India is now in relief mode!
After the last few days of actively providing relief materials across Chennai,Tiruvallur,Kanchipuram,Ranipet and Chengalpet, we are now focusing rebuilding the lost homes and livelihoods of the people.
Our team is hard at work to help the victims of Cyclone Michaung.

PLEASE DONATE NOW!!
For India: https://aidindia.in
For the USA: https://aidindia.org/cyclone-michaung-relief-efforts/

Aid India is actively providing relief and support for the Cyclone Michaung affected areas in Chennai and adjoining districts like Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram,Chengelpet,Ranipet. Our efforts have till date reached 3386 families in the form of provision of food and other necessities as well as other relief and repair activities.
We are hard at work and continue to bring hopes into the lives of the victims!
DONATE NOW!!
For India: https://aidindia.in
For the USA: https://aidindia.org/cyclone-michaung-relief-efforts/

Please contribute for Aid India's cyclone relief efforts.

We are providing relief in 124 remote villages. Many of the huts have been destroyed.

Situation in many of these villages: https://aidindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Cyclone-Michaung-Relief-Efforts.pptx.pdf

To donate in India: https://aidindia.in

To donate in the US:
https://aidindia.org/cyclone-michaung-relief-efforts/

Cyclone Michaung Relief Efforts - AID   AID-India has initiated relief efforts in 124 villages impacted by Cyclone Michaung. Latest Update: (pdf) Cyclone Michaung Relief Efforts by AID-India – Dec 4 2023

Aid India has started cyclone relief efforts in 124 villages. There is massive damage in Chennai city as well as lots of villages in many of the coastal districts.

Aid India is providing food provisions for families that can stay at home.

For families that flooded, we have shifted them to shelters and have started community kitchens.

We need funds and materials as well as volunteer support.

To donate funds please visit: https://aidindia.in

Prof. Mohan Bhagat is a huge inspiration to me and to AID volunteers everywhere.

To celebrate his 90th birthday today, Aid India team planted 900 trees in 90 of our Eureka Focus Villages.

Here are the photos and videos from our villages.

https://eurekahomes.org/events/Mohan-Bhagat-90th-birthday.html

Eureka School alumni children had the most amazing time at the Unleash Your Magic workshop last weekend!
Giada Bono, patron of Eureka School, weaved together the 2-day workshop, with a lot of thought and care. Gruppo Sella & Centrico employees as well as alumni came together to make this workshop a success! There were sessions on resourcefulness, the power of habits, growth mindset, problem solving, importance of nutrition & fitness, yoga and internet safety.

For the 70 students who participated, this was a great opportunity to prepare themselves for the school year ahead. It allowed them to have a fun time, while also learning new things about themselves. This workshop was a starting point to help children find their passion in life and pursue their dreams, no matter what obstacles they face along the way.

Children were super nostalgic to return to Eureka School and meet all their primary school teachers. The workshop finished with a bang – a fantastic magic show that evoked absolute thrill among all the children.

We are very grateful to all the resource persons who did an amazing job!

Satish Rajarathnam, for the mind-blowing magic show, KK, Karikalan who spoke on Food & Nutrition, Srinivasagopal Raman, for the thoughtful session on self-awareness, Dr. Bhuvaneswari, Yoga teacher, Vinay Sinha who enlightened kids on cyber safety, Sudhakar Ramamurthy for his session on ChatGPT and Giada Bono, who conceived this workshop. Padma Mani for ensuring that children got a lovely workshop pack!

Thanking Mr. Srinivas Lingam, CEO Centrico India who honoured the Class 10 & 12 toppers along with Balaji Sampath, Founder, Aid India.
And a special loud shout out to all the Eureka School teachers for doing what they do, so wonderfully!

Eureka School children in Koovathur participated in their first Football League competition yesterday. The kids played with full enthusiasm in the mini matches, that marked a good milestone to their months of football training this year. Parents were thrilled to see how much their children's football skills had progressed.
A big round of applause to our football players, teachers, Coach Sudarshan and Great Goals for the support in planning and ex*****on!

Eureka School Campus was a splash of rainbow colours on Colours Day. Kids & teachers in every class were super thrilled to dress up in the chosen colour for their class. They decorated their classrooms with balloons, paper cut-outs, flowers, props and artwork, all in the same colour theme. Parents too played along, wearing the same colours as their kids and getting photos taken against the vibrant backdrops.
Have a look at these enthusiastic tiny tots embracing the vibrant colors !!

Eureka Village Library bridges learning gaps and inculcates reading habits among children. The Eureka Library bag includes a variety of contents like story cards, vocab cards, story books in English, Tamil and Bilinguals. Currently the project is reaching 21,470 children across 500 villages & 66 Schools. Apart the books given to each villages, we have also initiated 38 Mobile Libraries with 50 titles catering to 320 villages.
A little glimpse below to showcase our avid readers !

A home of one's own is a dream that many aspire to fulfill. Aid India has been doing it's part to make that dream come true for numerous deprived families. We recently completed and handed over 4 brand new homes in Thondamannalur Village, Chengalpattu District,Tamil Nadu. On the day of the inauguration, the families were very happy to step into their new homes right before Diwali !

A group of volunteers ranging from school going teenagers to working professionals from Bay Area and Cincinnati, United States have been taking online classes as a part of Eureka Virtual Campus-Learning Beyond Limits since the last 2 years. Since the classes happen on Zoom platform, we were able to connect selected students even from hilly regions with spotty network connection like Jawadhu Hills and Kalvarayan Hills. For the students without their own gadgets, we have also provided them with electronic tabs to make sure all the children benefit from this opportunity. The teachers have been imparting education in various curricular and co-curricular concepts to the children which has bridged the existing learning disparity in a sustainable manner over the last two years.

Divya is a bright 20 year old girl from the Irular Tribal Community in Arunkundram village, Thiruporur block, Chengalpattu district. She had been a student at our Eureka After School center since her schooling days. In 2020, she secured 84.3% in her class 12th exams. Through the constant guidance of the Aid India team she got admission into the Government Law College, Tamil Nadu and is presently on the verge of finishing her degree in law. She has become the first girl from community and village to pursue higher education after class 12th and has become the inspiration to many young children in her village!
Her achievement makes us very happy and proud and also motivates us to reach more and more people!

Aid India provided essential relief materials for lesser privileged people as well as migrant labourers impacted by the floods in Bangalore. We provided prompt Flood Relief Support to 1010 families across 10 settlements as bouts of heavy rains left the people with little or no resources. We provided relief materials including tarpaulin sheets, mats, sanitary kits with toothbrush, toothpaste, soaps, towels, and sanitary napkins and 100 sets of plates and tumblers. Additionally 10 HP pumps were also distributed to help drain out clogged water in these settlements.

To dispel the age-long myths and misconceptions on menstruation, we have conducted Adolescent Health Classes for teenage girls as well as their mothers across 10 various districts of Tamil Nadu. Till now 82 such classes have been organized, of them 52 were conducted in villages and another 30 have been led in schools. We received a persistent feedback from many mothers stating that up until these classes, they believed that menstrual blood was impure. Therefore, these classes have been helpful in removing false impressions about menstruation as well as propagating hygienic and safe menstrual health practices and its importance among young women.

We have conducted classes on awareness regarding Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in 58 villages and 37 schools across 10 districts of Tamil Nadu. Through these classes we were able to reach children between the ages of 3 to 15 years and provide them lessons on identifying sexual abuse and prompt reporting of the same to duty-bound adults. With the help of these classes, parents and school teachers have become more conscious of such instances while the children have gained more confidence about speaking up against sexual exploitation in any environment.

The Kitchen Garden project of AID INDIA helps 14,000 families with vegetable seeds and gives guidance for organic farming in Tamil Nadu. To add value to it, AID INDIA recently set up a Nursery to grow vegetable seedling for these families. An event was organized at Sunambukalvay Village in Thiruporur block to distribute the 1st batch of seedlings to 1000 families on 27th June. The chief guest of the event Mr. S.S. Balaji, the MLA of Thiruporur constituency inaugurated the event by distributing and planting the seedlings.

Tara receiving an award from the TN Health Minister for Aid India's medical support to Govt Hospitals during Covid Pandemic.

Apart from providing medical supplies and equipment to 25 Govt hospitals, Aid India also ran 28 covid care centers, organized home covid care support in 2200 villages and provided 1 month of food supplies to 32387 poor families and helped 4328 street vendors restart their livelihoods after the lockdown.

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We at AID INDIA have restarted Sports for Girls Program at our Eureka Village centres and many girl students have come forward to enjoy the sports in the remote villages after the outbreak of the covid pandemic.

More than 80% of our after-school village tutors are young rural women who play a significant part in their own village student's learning as part of Eureka Village education program.

AID INDIA is very happy to wish all women and the men who support equality, the strength to make this world a better and a more equal place.

On the occasion of National Science Day, Aid India has conducted science events and exhibitions for the children across Eureka Villages Education Centre in TN and also in Eureka School. Several events, such as BMI calculation, types of pollution, distribution of sapling plants, were conducted with the immense participation of students. Furthermore, a robotics workshop was also conducted by Mr. Subramani, and they showcased the KG students' activities. On the whole, the event received a massive response from both students and their parents.

Under the Eureka Pre-primary Health and Nutrition program, Aid India conducted a medical camp for children aged upto 6 years.
General body check-up and Dental care consultation were provided to around 150 children from 10 villages across the district of Kallakurichi.

During this camp, we identified 4 children facing heart problems and 4 with dental issues and additional support and care have been provided for the same.

The aim of the program is to detect any health concerns of children at a very early age and tend to them properly so as to facilitate the healthy future of the upcoming generations.

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A State Level Training for Field Coordinators in Eureka Kitchen Garden Project was conducted at AID INDIA’s headquarters in Chennai. The Resource person Mr. Srinivasan from Ashok Nursery of Vellore conducted classes to explain the theoretical knowledge on Olericulture in simple manner. He demonstrated the preparation of five different types of organic fertilizers and insect repellents. District Coordinator of AID INDIA Mr. Sivakumar explained the information collected from Tamil Nadu Horticulture Department regarding Plant Life Cycle in the context of Tamil Nadu. The knowledge gained from this training will help the Field Coordinators to solve the issues faced by people in growing vegetables in their Kitchen Gardens. They will also give training to the people on preparation of organic fertilizers, insect repellents, conservation of seeds and maintenance of their Kitchen Gardens. This will impact 13,725 families at 183 villages across 12 districts of Tamil Nadu.

Apart from virtual classes for Maths and English, our Volunteer Mrs. Sathyavathi, a retired school teacher expressed her willingness to teach even after her retirement. Notably, she has been associated with Aid India for the past one year. With the support from the field coordinators, she had taken up the initiative to teach science classes for about 50 students in Ramanathapuram District every week. The session had been promoted as an interactive one with her practical demonstrations of every concept done my Mrs. Sathyavathi. As a result, it enables the interest of many students in attending online sessions regularly with sense of enthusiasm and passion.

Tinkering lab is a place where children are encouraged to indulge in test material works with sense of curiosity. The children enable in creative experiments and combine materials and other innovative ideas productively. Notably, under Eureka tinkering labs in several villages such as Bagavathapuram, Maddur, Pappireddy Palli, Vkn kandigai and Cherkannur of Thiruvallur, where nearly 50 children accustomed knowledge on dismantling and repairing the cycles.

Aid India has initiated Eureka Village Library to bridge learning gaps and to inculcate reading habit among children.
The Eureka Library bag includes a variety of content like story cards, vocab cards, story books in English, Tamil and Bilinguals.
We welcome volunteers to engage with our children and conduct virtual workshops and fun activities.

Interested volunteers can register in this link: https://forms.gle/CDrzAhZeu4AcqBdt6

Reach us @ +91 96001 15334 / [email protected]

A Ten-Day drumstick plantation drive has been started by AID INDIA at 183 villages across 12 districts of Tamil Nadu to create an awareness on the health benefits of it. Joint Secretary of AID INDIA Dr. M. Dhamodharan inaugurated the plantation drive by planting drumstick plant at Irular hamlet Bhagath Singh Nagar in Thiruvallur District.

The Aid India team has been training the people in villages who are interested in starting up a kitchen garden and has also provided them varieties of seeds. So far, 13,725 families have started their own Kitchen Gardens at these villages.

Aid India has conducted Pre- Primary Education training where the coordinators and volunteers from 40 villages participated. They were given Training on ‘Enhancing the Motor skills of the children’. Mrs. Anandhi, Childbirth Educator and founder of Happy Motherhood organization trained the volunteers on pregnancy health. Adolescent health training was given by Mrs. Anbazhagi Sr. field coordinator from Aid India.

Aid India under Eureka Pre Primary Education and Health & Nutrition initiative conducted a survey in 40 Tribal villages on vaccination and deworming done to children up to 6 years . We identified many families in Tribal villages who are afraid of getting vaccinated for their children. We helped 30 such tribal families in Thiruvannamalai and Kallakurichi districts in getting their children vaccinated. Deworming tablets were also distributed to children in these villages.

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The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted all states across India with heavy loss of lives and livelihood. Vijayalakshmi, a resident in Chengalpet, lost her husband in the Covid-19 pandemic. Being the sole breadwinner of the family she is now working as a daily wage laborer and also taking care of her son who is differently-abled; studying in 11st Std; Vijaylakshmi has completed Tailoring Classes and Aid India provided her with a Tailoring machine which will help her in sustaining her livelihood. We also supported his son with books, bags and some clothes.

Yesterday, Aid India has identified 18 Economically Backward beneficiaries from Ambasamudram Block, Tirunelveli District and provided livelihood support to them.

Till Now, Aid India has provided Livelihood grants and materials to the needy 4440 people so far. The support helped them in successfully restarting their business.